[Bf-committers] Better approaches to Defocus?

François T. francoistarlier at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 22:14:00 CEST 2011


yeah it's just you can have other purpose of VB which is not related to
Mblur or dof.

2011/6/28 michael williamson <michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk>

> In general I agree, I love the group node stuff, but when both node
> types are sortof related and need the zbuffer as input and essentially
> destroy it making it unusable for the other it seems to make a lot of
> sense to combine in this case.
>
> You could have 3 separate nodes... dof, vector blur and both... or it
> could be a single node with 3 modes... it needn't be cluttered or have
> any extra overhead for the unused stuff...
>
> Dof and motion blur are extremely common things to use together the user
> shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get them to play nice...
>
> I guess there's an argument for shipping a library of node groups too...
> but that's another topic.
>
> On 28/06/11 20:02, François T. wrote:
> > yeah and if you only need one of them, you get an other complicated node
> for
> > nothing. With nice grouping system and precomp, and better UI as well,
> you
> > can manage a clean not too complicated node setup.
> > I believe the new group system is a step in that direction, still need a
> bit
> > more work though but since it is much more customizable, you can hide
> some
> > crazy setup and just bring the needed value at the top of your node. I
> think
> > that's the spirit rather than having one big node which does everything
> and
> > nothing at the same time
> >
> > just my opinion though
> >
> > F
> >
> >
> > 2011/6/28 michael williamson<michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk>
> >
> >> On 28/06/11 17:41, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:
> >>> glitches, it's all glitches! how i'd love some good dof and vblur
> nodes:)
> >>>
> >>> Daniel Salazar
> >>> 3Developer.com
> >>>
> >> Even better would be a unified DOF/Vblur node so you can have both
> >> together without overcomplicating teh node setups! Currently they're
> >> pretty incompatible!
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